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Hot Chips “Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them,” said mathematician Alfred Lord Whitehead, in his 1911 tome, An Introduction to Mathematics. And with its Autonomic Computing effort, IBM believes it’s advancing civilization.
On Monday, in Palo Alto, California, IBM gave attendees at this year’s Hot Chips conference a deep dive into three of the latest developments in its nearly decade-long effort to create computers that dynamically self-optimize. “As good engineers we always put guardband in just to cover our tails,” Power7 EnergyScale architect Michael Floyd told his Hot Chips audience — somewhat less elegantly than Lord Whitehead, whose quote introduces Automatic computing on Big Blue’s website. H
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An Android game that secretly harvests GPS data has been discovered on the Android Market by security firm Symantec.
The free game called Tap Snake was identified by the company on 12 August and announced in a blog post on Monday after it had updated its antivirus signature to identify the newly classified Trojan as AndroidOS.Tapsnake.
The app appears as a classic game of Snake, but once installed and registered, it will periodically send location reports to a remote server, according to Symantec. However, in order to access the location updates, the snooping software requires a counterpart app called GPS Spy to be installed on the ‘attacker’ handset.
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ird qurer e reveue of $307 billio, up 114%, or $31 billio, from yer erlier
ird qurer GP operig profi up 5% o $23 billio; GP dilued erig per re of $075, up 9% from $069 yer erlier
ird qurer o-GP operig profi up 14% o $34 billio; o-GP dilued erig per re of $108, up 17% from $092 yer erlier
Brod-bed yer-over-yer reveue grow drive by E 19%, PG 17% d IPG 9%
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PLO LO, Clif–(BUIE WIRE)–P (YE: PQ) ody ouced ficil reul for i ird ficl qurer eded July 31, 2010, wi e reveue of $307 billio, up 114% from yer erlier icludig fvorble currecy beefi of pproximely oe percege poi
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I e ird qurer, GP dilued erig per re (EP) w $075, up from $069 i e prior-yer period o-GP dilued EP w $108, up from $092 i e prior-yer period, icludig oe-ime egive impc of pproximely $002 per re reled o legl eleme o-GP ficil iformio exclude fer-x co of pproximely $033 per re d $023 per re i e ird qurer of ficl 2010 d 2009, repecively, reled primrily o e morizio of purced igible, rerucurig crge d cquiiio-reled crge
“e brod-bed reg of P’ Q3 performce furer demore e power of our regy d e diciplie of our execuio,” id Cie Lej, P cief ficil officer d ierim cief execuive officer “We ried our full-yer ouloo d re coiuig o build momeum i drivig ou co, iveig for profible grow d cpilizig o P’ compeiive dvge i e mreplce”
Q3 FY10 Q3 FY09 Y/Y
e reveue ($B) $307 $276 11%
GP operig mrgi 76% 80% (04 p)
GP e erig ($B) $18 $17 6%
GP dilued EP $075 $069 9%
o-GP operig mrgi 112% 109% 03 p
o-GP e erig ($B) $26 $22 15%
o-GP dilued EP $108 $092 17%
Iformio bou P’ ue of o-GP ficil iformio i provided uder “Ue of o-GP ficil iformio” below Ule oerwie oed, ll grow re icluded i e rrive below reflec yer-over-yer comprio
ird qurer reveue w up 12% i e meric o $142 billio Reveue w up 9% i Europe, e Middle E d fric d up 14% i i Pcific o $109 billio d $56 billio, repecively We djued for e effec of currecy, reveue w up 11% i e meric, up 12% i Europe, e Middle E d fric d up 8% i i Pcific Reveue from ouide of e Uied e i e ird qurer ccoued for 63% of ol P reveue, wi reveue i e BRIC courie (Brzil, Rui, Idi d Ci) icreig 21% wile ccouig for 11% of ol P reveue
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ervice reveue icreed 1% o $86 billio Ifrrucure ecology Ouourcig reveue d Buie Proce Ouourcig ec icreed 1%, wile reveue i ecology ervice declied rougly 1% pplicio ervice reveue w up 4% veru e prior-yer period Operig profi w $14 billio, or 159% of reveue, up from $13 billio, or 153% of reveue, i e prior-yer period
Eerprie orge d erver
Eerprie orge d erver (E) repored ol reveue of $44 billio, up 19% Idury drd erver reveue icreed 31%, wile orge reveue icreed 10% d Buie Criicl yem reveue declied 15% E blde reveue w up 29% Operig profi w $549 millio, or 123% of reveue, up from $381 millio, or 102% of reveue, i e prior-yer period
P ofwre
P ofwre reveue icreed 2% o $863 millio Buie ecology Opimizio reveue icreed 3%, d Oer ofwre reveue decreed 1% Operig profi w $183 millio, or 212% of reveue, up from $153 millio, or 181% of reveue, i e prior-yer period
Perol yem Group
Perol yem Group (PG) poed 12% icree i ui ipme d miied e ledig mre re poiio i PC worldwide PG reveue icreed 17% o $99 billio oeboo reveue for e qurer w up 10%, wile Deop reveue icreed 27% Commercil clie reveue w up 25%, wile Coumer clie reveue icreed 12% Operig profi w $469 millio, or 47% of reveue, up from $387 millio, or 46% of reveue, i e prior-yer period
Imgig d Priig Group
Imgig d Priig Group (IPG) reveue icreed 9% o $62 billio upplie reveue w up 5%, wile Commercil rdwre reveue d Coumer rdwre reveue icreed 28% d 4%, repecively Prier ui ipme icreed 16%, wi Commercil prier rdwre ui up 44% d Coumer prier rdwre ui up 9% Operig profi w $10 billio, or 169% of reveue, veru $960 millio, or 170% of reveue, i e prior-yer period
Corpore Iveme
ProCurve reveue icreed 42%, d P eworig overll icreed 198% yer over yer icludig e impc of e 3Com cquiiio
P Ficil ervice
P Ficil ervice (PF) reveue icreed 14% o $764 millio Ficig volume icreed 3%, d e porfolio e icreed 13% Operig mrgi w 94%, up from 79% i e prior-yer period
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P geered $33 billio i c flow from operio for e ird qurer Iveory eded e qurer $72 billio, wi dy of iveory up o 28 from 25 i e prior-yer period ccou receivble of $156 billio w dow 2 dy yer over yer ccou pyble eded e qurer $149 billio, up 2 dy over e prior-yer period P’ divided pyme of $008 per re i e ird qurer reuled i c uge of $205 millio P lo uilized $26 billio of c durig e qurer o repurce pproximely 55 millio re of commo oc i e ope mre P exied e qurer wi $148 billio i gro c
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For e four qurer of ficl 2010, P eime reveue of pproximely $325 billio o $327 billio, GP dilued EP i e rge of $103 o $105, d o-GP dilued EP i e rge of $125 o $127 Four qurer ficl 2010 o-GP dilued EP eime exclude fer-x co of pproximely $022 per re, reled primrily o e morizio of purced igible, rerucurig crge d cquiiio-reled crge
For e full yer, P expec reveue i e rge of $1253 billio o $1255 billio P expec FY10 GP dilued EP o be i e rge of $362 o $364 d o-GP dilued EP i e rge of $449 o $451 FY10 o-GP dilued EP eime exclude fer-x co of pproximely $087 per re, reled primrily o e morizio of purced igible, rerucurig crge d cquiiio-reled crge
More iformio o P’ qurerly erig, icludig ddiiol ficil lyi d erig overview preeio, i vilble o P’ Iveor Relio webie wwwpcom/iveor/ome
P’ Q3 FY10 erig coferece cll i cceible vi udio webc wwwpcom/iveor/2010q3webc
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The tech world is still recovering from the shock of Intel purchasing McAfee for nearly $8 billion. As analysts and media struggle to make sense of the move, McAfee competitors weigh in with insight and opinion regarding the Intel acquisition.
Here is a sampling of what rival security organizations have told me about the Intel McAfee purchase:
Philippe Courtot, Qualys CEO:
“This acquisition is another example of the rapid consolidation taking place in the enterprise software industry, as traditional high tech vendors have an increasingly harder time competing against SaaS [software-as-a-service] and cloud computing offerings and can only find growth by embarking on aggressive pricing against their competitors to steal market share.”
This is precisely what McAfee did against Symantec.